Archives for
July 2012

Mashable brought you the news on Tuesday night that legendary magazine Sports Illustrated is featuring Instagram photos in this week's issue for the first time in its history. Now Brad Mangin, the photographer who made the images, used a Wednesday po...

A Facebook game currently in development will teach young adults financial literacy, while getting them hooked on an addictive online experience. Kicked Out, the product of developers and social entrepreneurs in Vienna, Austria and San Francisco, str...

The Space Shuttle Enterprise is open for business in New York City. The Intrepid Air and Space Museum officially unveils the shuttle exhibit to the public on July 19, but Mashable got a sneak preview. First impressions? The Shuttle is huge. I attende...

Design-focused, socially charged ecommerce site Fab announced Wednesday that it has closed a $105 million Series C financing round. Fab famously pivoted from a gay social network into an ecommerce site with millions of members and doing thousands of ...

A building-shaking, body-soaking, dog-scaring weather system tackled New York City Wednesday and amateur photographers braved the elements to capture amazing images of the storm. Former NFL linebacker and current Travel Channel host Dhani Jones shot ...

A large part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act is aimed at making patients' health records more accessible between multiple physicians, as well as between doctors and their patients. Part of this initi...

Trivia is a widespread part of pop culture. These days, people take pride in consuming niche facts -- from knowing every type of French cheese to reciting David Hasselhoff's entire filmography. But even the most seasoned trivia buffs are not always r...

As part of a move to bring its Internet content to life for web searchers, Bing's homepage on Wednesday features a stunning time-lapse video of Arizona's desert. Bing's homepage typically features a different photograph as its backdrop each day, but ...

With the 2012 Summer Olympics officially beginning in just over a week, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced a number of new features designed to boost the Games' social presence and engagement with fans. The Olympic Athletes' Hub ...

Alien spacecraft and little green men remain elusive figures in the latest trove of official UFO files released July 12 by the UK government. There's no smoking gun anywhere in the 6,700 pages, which represent the ninth collection of government UFO f...

AT&T announced on Wednesday that it is rolling out shared data plans, allowing customers to pay for chunk of data that can be divvied up among 10 devices, from smartphones and tablets to laptops and gaming devices. Dubbed "Mobile Share," the wireless...

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